Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A man was held at the jail in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after a sheriff's posse brought him there. According to a dispatch dated February 25, 1881, printed in the Knoxville Daily Chronicle, vigilantes took him from the jail and hanged him. The dispatch in the Chronicle, published March 1, 1881, is the account of the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A newspaper dispatch reports that vigilantes took a man from the jail in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and hanged him.
Reported by: newspaper dispatch.